Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer disease—one peptide, two pathways

SM Greenberg, BJ Bacskai… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The shared role of amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition in cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and
Alzheimer disease (AD) is arguably the clearest instance of crosstalk between …

Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer disease: an update on pathobiology and treatment strategies

JM Long, DM Holtzman - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is a heterogeneous disease with a complex pathobiology. The
presence of extracellular β-amyloid deposition as neuritic plaques and intracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Iatrogenic Alzheimer's disease in recipients of cadaveric pituitary-derived growth hormone

G Banerjee, SF Farmer, H Hyare, Z Jaunmuktane… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized pathologically by amyloid-beta (Aβ) deposition in
brain parenchyma and blood vessels (as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA)) and by …

A systemic view of Alzheimer disease—insights from amyloid-β metabolism beyond the brain

J Wang, BJ Gu, CL Masters, YJ Wang - Nature reviews neurology, 2017 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, and is currently incurable;
existing treatments for AD produce only a modest amelioration of symptoms. Research into …

Progression of cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a pathophysiological framework

EA Koemans, JP Chhatwal, SJ van Veluw… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which is defined by cerebrovascular deposition of amyloid β,
is a common age-related small vessel pathology associated with intracerebral haemorrhage …

Amyloid-type protein aggregation and prion-like properties of amyloids

D Willbold, B Strodel, GF Schröder, W Hoyer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review will focus on the process of amyloid-type protein aggregation. Amyloid fibrils are
an important hallmark of protein misfolding diseases and therefore have been investigated …

The amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease at 25 years

DJ Selkoe, J Hardy - EMBO molecular medicine, 2016 - embopress.org
Despite continuing debate about the amyloid β‐protein (or Aβ hypothesis, new lines of
evidence from laboratories and clinics worldwide support the concept that an imbalance …

[HTML][HTML] 2.7 Å cryo-EM structure of ex vivo RML prion fibrils

SW Manka, W Zhang, A Wenborn, J Betts… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian prions propagate as distinct strains and are composed of multichain assemblies
of misfolded host-encoded prion protein (PrP). Here, we present a near-atomic resolution …

Alzheimer's disease

P Scheltens, K Blennow, MMB Breteler, B De Strooper… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Although the prevalence of dementia continues to increase worldwide, incidence in the
western world might have decreased as a result of better vascular care and improved brain …